EA is dropping out of this 12 months’s GDC.
EA has suggested its workers to not journey to San Francisco for GDC 2020 in March, and gained’t be collaborating in any official capability.
The information was first revealed by Alex Sherer and Battlefield’s
Erik Ortman, each of whom apologised for lacking this 12 months’s occasion.
EA has since confirmed this choice in an announcement to Gamespot, citing considerations about current discoveries of coronavirus instances.
“Having closely followed the global situation with coronavirus and with the recent escalation of cases in new regions, we have decided to take additional steps to protect the well-being of our employees including the restriction of all non-essential travel,” it reads.
“As a result we are also cancelling our official participation at GDC and limiting attendance to other events. We are continuing to monitor the situation and will adjust guidelines to our employees as we feel is appropriate.”
Game funding fund Kowloon Nights additionally revealed that it’s not attending this 12 months’s present in a Tweet.
Today’s information follows different main departures, together with Sony, Oculus and extra lately, Kojima Productions.
It’s significantly disappointing for this to occur in a console launch 12 months, the place builders are inclined to get collectively and share new methods on working with these new platforms. GDC 2020 will proceed as deliberate, happening March 16-20.
